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By Samuel Meade Cristiano Ronaldo told Ralf Rangnick he wouldn’t sit on the bench for Manchester United games he wasn’t involved in – instead choosing to watch them on TV at home. The Portuguese star played for several months under Rangnick, who came in to replace Ole Gunnar Solskjaer midway through the 2021/22 season. Ronaldo had been signed that summer to huge fan fare, but his impact on the dressing room and his playing style had been questioned. Ronaldo was well into his 30s when he returned to Manchester for a second spell and struggled to enact the pressing systems that have become commo…

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